{"product_id":"divination-oracles-omens-9781851246335","title":"Divination, Oracles \u0026 Omens","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michelle Aroney\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bodleian Library\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bodleian Library\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spellbinding collection of twenty-four divinatory techniques from around the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Divination, Oracles \u0026amp; Omens\u003c\/i\u003e, Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn explore our need to appeal to powers beyond our realm for prediction and clarification. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The past, present, and future are full of tantalizing mysteries: questions about our own and other people's lives that we long to answer. Across history, human cultures have devised a wide range of methods to discover what might lie ahead or to understand past events. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This fascinating book features twenty-four divinatory techniques from around the world that have been and are still used to uncover hidden information: from astrology, palmistry, and Tarot to egg divination and Chinese Yijing. Each chapter is beautifully illustrated with a wide range of associated objects, such as cards, dice, altars, candles and texts, and even mathematical tools including astrolabes and astronomical tables. While these practices are often seen as light-hearted entertainment, a soothsayer's uncannily accurate reading can catapult a client from skepticism to serious engagement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From ancient times to the present day, this spellbinding collection explores our need to appeal to powers beyond the realm of our day-to-day understanding for prediction and clarification, and how the questions we ask can reveal more than the answers we are given. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bodleian Library","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45299681034391,"sku":"9781851246335","price":2669.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781851246335.webp?v=1769285954","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/divination-oracles-omens-9781851246335","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}